Licensing

hg-review is distributed under the same license as Mercurial itself: GPL version 2 or any later version.

If you want to create a program that works with hg-review you should look at Mercurial’s License FAQ page to learn about how this might affect you.

The basic idea is:

• If you review code with hg-review, you are not affected by the license.
• If you bundle hg-review with another application and don’t change anything, you are not affected by the license.
• If you create an application that interacts with hg-review solely through its command line interface or web interface, you are not affected by the license.
• If you create an application that interactes with hg-review by calling its internal Python API, you are affected by the license and will need to license your application’s code as GPL version 2 or later.

Note that the last item (using hg-review’s internal Python API) is probably the one you won’t want to do anyway, since the Python API is not stable.

If you have any questions please email Steve, but remember that he’s not a lawyer and might not have a fast answer for tricky questions.